A number of arguments surround orthodontics and orthodontic treatment and this article aims to discuss the current thinking and evidence base associated with these controversies.
The title I have chosen for my subject today is Orthodontic Education; but for whom, and for what? Is this education for the sake of orthodontists, or for the sake of the community? Is present orthodontic education satisfactory or not? Can orthodontic education be disassociated from the general problem of dental education and the role of orthodontists and orthodontics in this process? I do not believe that it should be discussed in vacuo, for it is but part of a general problem. Consequently I will try and answer the wider questions posed by the title of the paper and not restrict myself to problems which so many orthodontists have tried and so many have failed to answer.
